My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

do or die is hipsterville now?

Whats about that

Would you feel more comfortable with it being a drug infested warzone wiping out & incarcerating black men?

The death of that aspect of NYC is better for everybody

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Whats about that

Would you feel more comfortable with it being a drug infested warzone wiping out & incarcerating black men?

The death of that aspect of NYC is better for everybody

I don't see why people aren't understanding this. Too many people clinging to the hood forgetting that the hood fukking sucks. Sure its got character, but people aren't supposed to live like that. In constant fear of the Jakes, other nikkas who all emotional and ready to shoot. Piss poor schools and living conditions, no access to resources and simple amenities such as proper food and safe parks.

How is living like that a good thing?

 

[BillBanneker]

Whats about that

Would you feel more comfortable with it being a drug infested warzone wiping out & incarcerating black men?

The death of that aspect of NYC is better for everybody

Are you a hipster? No one said anything about preferring a war zone.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Are you a hipster? No one said anything about preferring a war zone.

Naw my point was yea hipsters are goofy as fukk but I don't see how they are any worse than drug dealers and violent street gangs

You dont have to worry about hipsters

 

[x2y]

I'm back in the city and although it's changed it's for the better. I was in the BX last week visiting my grandma and that place is still a dump.

Trying to figure out where I'm moving to now though. Real Estate is a bytch.

 

[Captain Crunch]

They were saying that about the Bronx 5 years ago

Fair, but the South Bronx at some point will get better(at worst 15 years). Manhattan will be taken up by 2016(maybe sans Dykeman), Brooklyn is just about there, and Queens is there w/ the exception of the suberb-ish areas. So the next logical area is the South Bronx, throw in the waterfront and the proximity to Midtown, and it's only a matter of time. Unless that SI subway to Brooklyn arises in 10 years, South Bronx is next.

 

[Malta]

Fair, but the South Bronx at some point will get better(at worst 15 years). Manhattan will be taken up by 2016(maybe sans Dykeman), Brooklyn is just about there, and Queens is there w/ the exception of the suberb-ish areas. So the next logical area is the South Bronx, throw in the waterfront and the proximity to Midtown, and it's only a matter of time. Unless that SI subway to Brooklyn arises in 10 years, South Bronx is next.

It's already started, there's a really small pocket not too far from the Willis ave bridge where they built a new apartment complex, and the area has small shops and bars in it. It's completely different from the areas surrounding it.

 

[88m3]

It's already started, there's a really small pocket not too far from the Willis ave bridge where they built a new apartment complex, and the area has small shops and bars in it. It's completely different from the areas surrounding it.

That doesn't seem like an area I would want to be walking around at night

 

[88m3]

They damn near ready to give it away

I wonder who else lives in the building though

That's the thing. I've been looking at places in the 3-5 range and I'm like I know that building....

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Fair, but the South Bronx at some point will get better(at worst 15 years). Manhattan will be taken up by 2016(maybe sans Dykeman), Brooklyn is just about there, and Queens is there w/ the exception of the suberb-ish areas. So the next logical area is the South Bronx, throw in the waterfront and the proximity to Midtown, and it's only a matter of time. Unless that SI subway to Brooklyn arises in 10 years, South Bronx is next.

It's already started, there's a really small pocket not too far from the Willis ave bridge where they built a new apartment complex, and the area has small shops and bars in it. It's completely different from the areas surrounding it.

The thing with Queens and BK is the coastal areas & areas close to the train weren't really as gooney, grimey or projects heavy as South Bronx (and East Harlem for that matter). So the slow spread was only a matter of time. I will bet $$$ the Utica 2-5 stop will look like Williamsburg in 20 years. I already know a lot of white people who live around there. And the only place in Queens that's really "gone" is Astoria, and maybe LIC. Everywhere else, its the same shyt as it was 10, 20 years ago. Lot of Ecuadorians and Indians who all own their blocks, and then as you get further out on the Queens Blvd line it grows more grimey and distant.

South Bronx + East Harlem are nothing but projects. You hop out of any 456 stop above 96th and maybe below Fordam, coming from the suburbs or w/e its I remember me and my wife were looking at places in Manhattan and just decided to go up to 106th and Lex. We came out of the train stop and turned around lmao. Now I'm up there more and its not too bad but its a tough sell if you have other choices. East Harlem at least. South Bronx is still grimy as hell and I'm shocked they made as much headway as they did.

 

[Yuzo Lightheart]

this is always sounds low key racist to me like "we dont want these fukking whites go live somewhere else!!!!" i understand the argument of people being priced out and pushed out etc but still

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

this is always sounds low key racist to me like "we dont want these fukking whites go live somewhere else!!!!" i understand the argument of people being priced out and pushed out etc but still

It is racist. These same people would blow a blood vessel if they heard white people stereotyping black people and saying they didn't want us in "their" neighborhoods. We gotta accept the L and move on

 

[Malta]

I have work projects up there. Doesn't seem that bad AT ALL.

Yall gotta read the fine print tho. Maintenance is $603/mo. And the location is TERRIBLE. Half a mile away from any train line. I wanna meet the dude who put his name on the loan for this building

You could still probably rent it out and clear $300-400 a month, some of these co-ops are the price of a Camry

 

[Francis White]

The thing with Queens and BK is the coastal areas & areas close to the train weren't really as gooney, grimey or projects heavy as South Bronx (and East Harlem for that matter). So the slow spread was only a matter of time. I will bet $$$ the Utica 2-5 stop will look like Williamsburg in 20 years. I already know a lot of white people who live around there. And the only place in Queens that's really "gone" is Astoria, and maybe LIC. Everywhere else, its the same shyt as it was 10, 20 years ago. Lot of Ecuadorians and Indians who all own their blocks, and then as you get further out on the Queens Blvd line it grows more grimey and distant.

South Bronx + East Harlem are nothing but projects. You hop out of any 456 stop above 96th and maybe below Fordam, coming from the suburbs or w/e its I remember me and my wife were looking at places in Manhattan and just decided to go up to 106th and Lex. We came out of the train stop and turned around lmao. Now I'm up there more and its not too bad but its a tough sell if you have other choices. East Harlem at least. South Bronx is still grimy as hell and I'm shocked they made as much headway as they did.

Okay i live in queens, Forest Hills is even better than it was before and so is Elmhurst and Flushing which is Asian Kew Gardens is way better than it was when i lived there, the grimy areas are smaller now, no one wants that nonsense anymore.

 

[ogc163]

It's already started, there's a really small pocket not too far from the Willis ave bridge where they built a new apartment complex, and the area has small shops and bars in it. It's completely different from the areas surrounding it.

Yeah they have a couple of spots that are not hood on that strip...

The Clock Cafe and Martini Bar
Ceetay*|*
Bruckner Bar & Grill
El Habanero Mexican Cocina - Mott Haven - New York, NY

The spot you talking about is probably The Clock Tower
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I don't know how these restaurants make money,few times I've gone in them they were empty as fukk.